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  <h1>Welcome</h1>

  <div class="quotebar">
    <p>What users say:</p>
    <p>&ldquo;Cheers for a great tool that actually makes researchers <b>want</b>
      to write reusable code!&rdquo;</p>
  </div>

  <p>
    Onyx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
    experiments.  It was originally created to translate the whiteboard sketches
    of speech scientists into running experiments.  It has excellent support for
    the streaming processing of conceptually unbounded amounts of data for
    machine-learning and statistical inference applications.
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  <p>
    Onyx uses <a href="http://python.org/">Python</a>
    as its programming language, and many of its strengths come from the power and
    simplicity of Python itself, and from Python's
    <a href="http://www.scipy.org/">high-performance numerical extensions</a>.
  </p>

  <p>Onyx was originally written by Hugh Secker-Walker and Ken Basye at the
  Johns Hopkins University.  Onyx is licensed under the Apache 2 license.</p>

  <h2>Documentation</h2>
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      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="user.html">Installation and User guide</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">for getting started</span></p>
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="tutorials.html">Tutorials</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">examples of usage</span></p>
    </td><td width="50%">
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="core.html">Reference documentation</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">all packages, modules, classes, and functions</span></p>
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="developer.html">Developer guide</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">for modifying and extending Onyx</span></p>
    </td></tr>
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  <h2>Indices and Tables</h2>
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    <td width="50%">
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="modindex.html">Complete Module Index</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">complete listing of all modules</span></p>
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="genindex.html">General Index</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">all functions, classes and terms</span></p>
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="glossary.html">Glossary</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">explanations of key terms</span></p>
    </td><td width="50%">
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="contents.html">Complete Table of Contents</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">all documentation sections and subsections</span></p>
      <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="search.html">Search page</a><br/>
         <span class="linkdescr">search all documentation</span></p>
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  <h2>Get Onyx</h2>

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  <p>
    Onyx is <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/onyxtools/">hosted at SourceForge</a>.  There are
   <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/onyxtools/files/">released 
   files (tarballs)</a> and the latest released version of <a href="http://onyxtools.sourceforge.net/">this documentation</a>.
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